June 2, 2012

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When Comedy Was Clean and Comediennes Were King

John Farr | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Preston Sturges, Don Ameche, Carole Lombard, Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur, Screwball Comedy, Mary Astor, Frank Capra, John Barrymore, Bob Hope, Claudette Colbert, Billy Wilder, Best Movies on DVD, Best Movies by Farr, Best Movies, Rosalind Russell, Cary Grant, Leo McCarey, Bridesmaids, Howard Hawks, Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Hecht, Kristen Wiig, Bill Cosby, Jean Arthur, Irene Dunne, Gary Cooper, Ralph Bellamy, Comedy, Jack Benny, Entertainment News

For those wanting a respite from today's low, "in-your-face" brand of comedy, here are a few tried-and-true classics featuring these top screen comediennes. These special ladies made us laugh -- and feel smart -- at the same time.

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Is Today's Film Comedy in the Toilet?

John Farr | Posted 09.16.2011

I continue to be nostalgic for comedy that doesn't require constant profanity or a surfeit of fart gags to succeed, that relies instead on subtle, clever scripts and witty dialogue; movies that in the end give their audiences some credit for brains and taste.

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Bisset, De Havilland & Kerr Feted by French Legion & BFI/TCM Festival to Open With Caron Classic

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jill Clayburgh, Penelope Andrew, Charles Laughton, Robert Osborne, Jacqueline Bisset, Bfi, Tcm, Olivia De Havilland, Deborah Kerr, Dennis Hopper, Women Film Critics Circle, TCM Film Festival, Luise Rainer, Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Josephine Botting, Leslie Caron, Patricia Neal, Roger Ebert, Nick Nolte, Michael Powell, Pedro Almodovar, Arthur Penn, Maureen O'Hara, The British Film Institute, Entertainment News

As late summer transformed into autumn, milestones in classic film, which focused primarily on iconic leading ladies, dominated the news and will be r...

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Film Noir Honey Lizabeth Scott at the Academy

Debra Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barbara Stanwyck, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Film Noir, Kirk Douglas, Lizabeth Scott, Arts News

Monday's edition of the Academy's first-rate full-summer film series, "1940s Writing Nominees from Hollywood's Dark Side," enjoyed the tremendous pleasure of a guest appearance by actress Lizabeth Scott.

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To Martin Scorsese, the Criterion Collection, and Anyone Else Who'll Listen: More Public Domain Classics Worth Saving

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

It's not enough to revere the best of our film heritage -- we must work to protect and preserve it. With that in mind, I've compiled a short list of public domain titles that I'd like to see brought back to their original glory.

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The Philip Roth Reader: Putting the Ire in Satire

Karen Stabiner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barbara Stanwyck, Gene Kelly, Watergate, Our Gang, The Philip Roth Reader, Woodward and Bernstein, Richard Nixon, Reading, Books, Philip Roth, Books News

I admire Roth for being able to discipline rage into something that makes us feel smarter just for reading it.

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Howard Barton Unruh Dead: "Walk Of Death" Mass Murderer Who Killed 13 In 1949 Dies At 88

AP | BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barbara Stanwyck, Camden, Mass Murder, Howard Barton Unruh Dead, Crime, Schizophrenia, Camden New Jersey, Mass Murderer, Walk of Death, Howard Barton Unruh, Howard Unruh, New York News

TRENTON, N.J. — Howard Barton Unruh, who killed 13 people as he walked the streets of Camden in a psychotic 1949 shooting spree that was the nat...

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Ten Films For The Coming Weeks

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Graduate, Fred MacMurray, Woody Allen, Thanksgiving, Paul Simon, The Thin Man, The Apartment, Animal House, Diane Keaton, Peter Sellers, Spencer Tracy, Best Movies by Farr, Don Cheadle, Ben Affleck, Father of the Bride Movie, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Cary Grant, Burt Reynolds, Alfred Hitchcock, Barbara Stanwyck, Blake Edwards, Boogie Nights, Grace Kelly, Julianne Moore, Matthew McConaughey, Bonnie and Clyde, Jack Lemmon, Jeff Goldblum, Parker Posey, Preston Sturges, Dustin Hoffman, William H. Macy, Elizabeth Taylor, Holiday Shopping, Holiday Season, William Powell, John C. Reilly, It's a Wonderful Life, Holiday Season Commentary, To Catch a Thief, Billy Wilder, Mark Wahlberg, A Christmas Carol, Dazed and Confused, Jon Voight, Parties, Henry Fonda, Mad Men, Midnight Cowboy, Shirley MacLaine, P.T. Anderson, Annie Hall, Richard Linklater, Myrna Loy, Heather Graham, The Love Boat, Entertainment News

Get ready, folks, for the coming blur of forced reunions, work-related functions, and cacophonous Christmas parties.

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The Alarming Decline Of Expressive Language, In Life and On Film

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George C. Scott, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson, William Holden, Instant Messaging, Sterling Hayden, All About Eve, Faye Dunaway, Ernest Lehman, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sellers, Best Movies by Farr, Burt Lancaster, Walter Huston, Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Jenkins, George Sanders, Janus Films, Stanley Kubrick, Clifford Odets, Technology, A.O. Scott, Sidney Lumet, Humphrey Bogart, Criterion Collection, Preston Sturges, The Academy Awards, Writing, Al Pacino, Billy Wilder, Best Movies on DVD, Double Indemnity, Tony Curtis, John Ford, Screenwriting, John Huston, Anne Baxter, Essential Art Films, Marcel Carne, Peter Finch, Paddy Chayefsky, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Walter Winchell, Bette Davis, Entertainment News

Even as today's high school and college students are pushed harder in school, they cannot write an essay or use descriptive language nearly as fluently as their parents and grandparents could.

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The Dimming of Star Power in Hollywood

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Russell Crowe, Clark Gable, Paul Newman, Compensation, George Clooney, Best Movies by Farr, Cary Grant, Tom Hanks, Barbara Stanwyck, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise, Adam Sandler, Steve McQueen, Great Movies, Hollywood, Entertainment News

Could it be that Denzel and Julia no longer merit guaranteed twenty million dollar paydays with every picture? And if so, what precisely has happened?

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Best Movies By Farr: When Oscar Screws Up

John Farr | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Edward G. Robinson, The English Patient, The Exorcist, Tom Hanks, History of the Academy Awards, Julie Andrews, Milk, Fred MacMurray, John Wayne, The Wrestler Stanley Kubrick, As Good as It Gets, Capote, The Great Ziegfeld, Traffic, L.A. Confidential, Driving Miss Daisy, Dr. Strangelove, Fargo, High Noon, Million Dollar Baby, Joan Allen, My Left Foot, Around the World in Eighty Days, Slumdog Millionaire, The Academy Awards, The Sting, Rocky Balboa, Letters From Iwo Jima, Double Indemnity, Shirley MacLaine, Rex Harrison, Little Miss Sunshine, Ed Harris, Life Is Beautiful, Peter Finch, Shakespeare in Love, Charles Chaplin, James Dean, Giant, Crash, My Man Godfrey, Barbara Stanwyck, The Contender, Network, Imelda Staunton, Academy Awards, Titanic, Louis B. Mayer; Daryl Zanuck; Samuel L Goldwyn, Hotel Rwanda, The Apartment, The Departed, Peter Sellers, Pulp Fiction, Burt Lancaster, Gladiator, Vera Drake, Sean Penn, Modern Times, Elizabeth Taylor, Chicago, Field of Dreams, Billy Wilder, Pollock, Al Jolson, Forrest Gump, William Powell, John Travolta, Carole Lombard, Singin' in the Rain, Taxi Driver, Cecil B. DeMille, My Fair Lady, Jack Lemmon, The Searchers, The Hours, Robert De Niro, Entertainment News

2005 -- for Best Picture, give me Capote over Crash any ol' time. Another uninspiring year, I thought.

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Robert Wagner Reveals Love Affair With Barbara Stanwyck, 23 Years His Senior

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Wagner, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Wagner Barbara Stanwyck, Film, Books, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — Robert Wagner's marriage to Natalie Wood was known to all. His love affair with Barbara Stanwyck was a secret _ until now. In his new...

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DVDs: TV Show Boxed Set Rip-Offs

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Barbara Stanwyck, TV Shows, Battlestar Galactica, The Sopranos, John Sayles, Monk, Derek Jarman, Westerns, Movies, Dvds, Honeydripper, Gunsmoke, Xanadu, Entertainment News

A spreading practice needs to be stopped right now. A number of studios -- led by Paramount/CBS -- are releasing old TV shows in half-season sets.

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